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Rumu

Robot House · Hammerfall Publishing · 2017-12-12

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 12, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.

1
playing now
90%
positive of 569 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
54/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
3h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Rumu is an Australian adventure game developed by Robot House and published by Hammerfall Publishing on December 12, 2017 on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 569 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2019-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

102026-08-12 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.492017-12-132024-07-222017-12-13 — best price $19.992018-02-15 — best price $14.992018-02-19 — best price $19.992018-06-22 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-09-28 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-07-09 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $7.492020-12-01 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $7.492021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $5.892021-07-08 — best price $9.992023-07-05 — best price $2.492023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-09-18 — best price $7.492023-09-25 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $3.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-07-02 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-07-15 — best price $3.392024-07-22 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6869%17

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CuteDarkIndieCasualPuzzleRobotsSci-fiMysteryAdventureEmotional

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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